Back in April, when Higher Ground was part of the Tribeca Film Festival, Farmiga sat down for a breakfast meeting with a group of female journalists to talk about the movie, her experience as a female director, and what she does with all the awful scripts Hollywood sends her way. Here are some of the highlights from that conversation. Higher Ground is out now in limited release

Even if you have no interest in Christianity or seeing a movie about a woman struggling with her faith, Higher Ground has so much more to it, from gripping family drama to some sublimely ridiculous humor

No word on when they're planning a release, but I could easily see them putting together an Oscar campaign for Farmiga's performance, and maybe even for supporting players like Joshua Leonard and one of this year's Oscar nominees, John Hawkes. Sony Pictures Classics is almost always a player in the year-end Oscar race

The only movie we had managed to see in common was Miguel Arteta's Cedar Rapids, a big Fox Searchlight release that's also opening in theaters February 11, so we talked about our fairly different reactions to that